A system of romanized spelling for transliterating Chinese, devised by the British diplomat Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95), professor of Chinese at Cambridge, and modified by his successor Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935). It has been largely superseded by Pinyin.
Definition of Wade–Giles in US English:
Wade–Giles
nounˌwādˈjīlz
A system of romanized spelling for transliterating Chinese, devised by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95) and Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935). It has been largely superseded by Pinyin.